id summary reporter owner description type status component version severity resolution keywords cc stage has_patch needs_docs needs_tests needs_better_patch easy ui_ux 34848 Updating translations catalog for javascript files fails with CommandError Natalia Bidart Natalia Bidart "Running the command to update the translations catalog for the `djangojs` domain fails with the following error: {{{ xgettext: warning: msgid '' is used without plural and with plural. ./views/templates/i18n_catalog.js:52: Here is the occurrence without plural. ./views/templates/i18n_catalog.js:60: Here is the occurrence with plural. Workaround: If the msgid is a sentence, change the wording of the sentence; otherwise, use contexts for disambiguation. CommandError: errors happened while running msguniq /home/nessita/fellowship/django/django/conf/locale/djangojs.pot:22: context separator within string /home/nessita/fellowship/django/django/conf/locale/djangojs.pot:23: context separator within string msguniq: found 2 fatal errors }}} As far as I have been able to debug, these errors come from these two lines from the `django/views/templates/i18n_catalog.js` file: {{{ let value = django.gettext(context + '\x04' + msgid); }}} and {{{ let value = django.ngettext(context + '\x04' + singular, context + '\x04' + plural, count); }}} This file [https://github.com/ngnpope/django/blob/main/django/views/templates/i18n_catalog.js django/views/templates/i18n_catalog.js] was upgraded to a ""full javascript"" file in [https://github.com/django/django/pull/16562/files#diff-1b9c97f5db01b8f98f017fc8727caa7c7328f1c9147a906b652127148a698ba8 PR #16562]: before this change, the javascript for the `i18n_catalog` was inline in the `i18n.py` module. The generated `pot` for this file looks like this: {{{ # SOME DESCRIPTIVE TITLE. # Copyright (C) YEAR THE PACKAGE'S COPYRIGHT HOLDER # This file is distributed under the same license as the PACKAGE package. # FIRST AUTHOR , YEAR. # #, fuzzy msgid """" msgstr """" ""Project-Id-Version: PACKAGE VERSION\n"" ""Report-Msgid-Bugs-To: \n"" ""POT-Creation-Date: 2023-09-18 14:48-0300\n"" ""PO-Revision-Date: YEAR-MO-DA HO:MI+ZONE\n"" ""Last-Translator: FULL NAME \n"" ""Language-Team: LANGUAGE \n"" ""Language: \n"" ""MIME-Version: 1.0\n"" ""Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8\n"" ""Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit\n"" ""Plural-Forms: nplurals=INTEGER; plural=EXPRESSION;\n"" #: views/templates/i18n_catalog.js:52 views/templates/i18n_catalog.js:60 msgid """" msgid_plural """" msgstr[0] """" msgstr[1] """" }}} It seems that we need to have a way to skip fetching translations for the `i18n_catalog.js` file. An immediate workaround is to use this command: {{{ django-admin makemessages -l en --domain=djangojs -i views/templates/i18n_catalog.js }}} But I think we may need to provide a more standard/common way to generate this catalogs so future contributors do not need to go thru this debugging. One option would be to provide a toplevel `Makefile` with a rule to update translations catalogs." Bug closed Internationalization 5.0 Normal fixed Ready for checkin 1 0 0 0 0 0